Roi Cohen Kadosh


Roi Cohen Kadosh is an Israeli-British cognitive neuroscientist notable for his work on numerical and mathematical cognition and learning and cognitive enhancement. He is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and the head of the Cognition, Learning, and Plasticity Group at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow in Psychology at Jesus College. He is married to the developmental cognitive neuroscientist Kathrin Cohen Kadosh.

Biography

Roi was born in Israel in 1976. He became interested in psychology at age 14, following his mother's illness and early death. After absolving mandatory service in the Israel Defence Forces, he started his studies at Achva College, and received his undergraduate degree in Behavioral Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2002. Based on his achievements in his undergraduate studies, he received the prestigious Kreitman Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and was accepted to the direct track in PhD in neuropsychology with Prof. Avishai Henik. During his PhD degree, he completed the European Diploma in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and received training as an intern in clinical neuropsychology, at :he:בית חולים לוינשטיין|Beit Leowenstein Rehabilitation Center. He then decided to follow a research career, and received a Rothschild post-doctoral fellowship and funding from European Commission and the International Brain Research Organization to join the Institute Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London for his postdoctoral training. In 2009 he received a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship to move to the University of Oxford where he established his lab.

Numerical Cognition

Cohen Kadosh started to work on numerical cognition under the supervision of Avishai Henik. Cohen Kadosh's work has focused on how humans represent numbers and the psychological and biological mechanisms that support superior, typical, and impaired numerical understanding, a research with implications for a wide range of fields including psychology, education, and neuroscience. His work in this field has led to significant changes in several dominant theories of numerical cognition.

Synesthesia

Cohen Kadosh has revealed some of the cognitive and perceptual principles of synesthesia and its neurobiological mechanisms, which has implications for the field of neuroplasticity and learning. He has also suggested that the origins of synesthesia might be due to a failure in cortical specialization during infancy and childhood.

Cognitive Enhancement

Cohen Kadosh has been one of the pioneers in combining cognitive training with non-invasive brain stimulation to show its impact on cognition, learning, and brain functions. In the last years he has extended his work to examine the role of individual differences at the psychological and biological level on the impact of brain stimulation on behaviour, those allowing a better mechanistic understanding of brain stimulation and learning.

Neuroethics

Cohen Kadosh has collaborated with neuroethicists to highlight the implications of brain stimulation for cognitive enhancement and shape the current regulation.

Awards and Recognition

· In 2016 he was the recipient of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society Early Career Award.
· In 2015 he received the Professorial Distinction Award from the University of Oxford.
· His book The Stimulated Brain garnered at 2015 an Honorable Mention for Biomedicine & Neuroscience at the 2015 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers.
· In 2014 he received the Scholar Award from the James S McDonnell Foundation.
· In 2014 the British Psychological Society announced that Roi Cohen Kadosh would be the recipient of the Spearman Medal.
· The European Society for Cognitive Psychology awarded him at 2012 the Paul Bertelson Award.
· In 2010 he was awarded the Career Development Award, from the Society for Neuroscience.
· In 2009 he received The Sieratzki-Korczyn Prize for Advances in the Neurosciences.

Published works

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Selected Papers

Cohen Kadosh’s research attracts substantial interest from the public and the media. The following is a partial list;
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